Assignment: Read Good Writers, Become a Better Writer
Before a personal trainer can develop a workout and nutrition plan, he or she will meet with the client, ask questions, and determine the client's current strength and ability. Writing instructors use a similar process to help students "diagnose" their writing strengths and weaknesses and develop a training plan!
A diagnostic writer's response is intended to help you and your professor learn more about your individual writing strengths and weaknesses. The feedback you will receive from your professor will help you think more about your writing and what you need to address to strengthen your personal, academic, and professional communication.
Step 1: Select an article relevant to your field of study from one of the following Professional Websites. If your field of study is not listed here or if you do not find an article in one of these websites you wish to use, visit the Occupational Outlook Handbook and locate a different professional website that you find more interesting or relevant to you and your field of study.
Read the article and apply what you have learned about effective reading and writing to complete this assignment.
Step 2: Identify the author, title and publication information for your article. Identify the article's audience and purpose, and summarize the main points in the article in your own words.
Next, analyze what the author does to develop or support these main points.
Then, analyze the effectiveness of the article. Identify 1-2 specific qualities of the article you read that you find to be effective, given the author's audience and purpose.
Your submission should be organized into 3 well-developed paragraphs with an introductory paragraph, body paragraph, and concluding paragraph. The essay should be approximately 1-2 and 1/2 double spaced pages in length.
ORG. BEHAVIOR
In Discussion you addressed the effect of workforce diversity on job satisfaction. Now you will continue this topic of job satisfaction in this Assignment. For this section you will use the Experiential Exercise at the end of Chapter 3 in your text, entitled "What Factors Are Most Important to Your Job Satisfaction?" Read the exercise and review the list of 21 factors or attributes.
Once you have reviewed the text exercise, go to the Society for Human Resource Management's website (SHRM.org), and review their results of a study conducted on 600 employees about job satisfaction.
Once you have reviewed both the experiential exercise and the online study results, complete the following Assignment:
Assignment: Your Job Satisfaction
In a Word document, rank-order the list of job factors from top to bottom, so that number 1 is the job factor you think is most important to your job satisfaction, number 2 is the second most important factor to your job satisfaction, and so on.
Then answer the following questions:
1. Explain why you selected your top 5 job factors.
2. Click the Resources icon below to see the results of a study of a random sample of 600 employees conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM ® ). How do your rankings compare to the SHRM ® results? If your rankings are different, why might that be?